Ethnic Orientation/African American
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Felix Ever After
$18.99 Add to cartA Stonewall Honor Book * A Time Magazine Best YA Book of All Time
From Stonewall and Lambda Award-winning author Kacen Callender comes a revelatory YA novel about a transgender teen grappling with iden
- Author: Callender, Kacen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 05 2020
- ISBN10: 0062820257
- Language: English
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Before She Was Harriet
$8.99 Add to cartAn evocative poem and stunning watercolors come together to honor an American heroine in a Coretta Scott King Honor and Christopher Award-winning picture book.
We know her today as Harriet Tubman, bu- Author: Cline-Ransome, Lesa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: June 11 2019
- ISBN10: 0823444295
- Language: English
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Honeysmoke: A Story of Finding Your Color
$19.99 Read moreA young biracial girl looks around her world for her color. She finally chooses her own, and creates a new word for herself–honeysmoke.
Simone wants a color. She asks Mama, “Am I black or white?” “Bo- Author: Fields, Monique
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1250115825
- Language: English
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The Pod and the Bog: Zoey and Sassafras #5
$16.99 Add to cartWith magical animals, science, mystery, and adventure — the series Zoey and Sassafras has something for everyone! Easy-to-read language and illustrations on nearly every page make this series perfect
- Series: Zoey and Sassafras #5
- Author: Citro, Asia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 10 2018
- ISBN10: 194314737X
- Language: English
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Keats’s Neighborhood: An Ezra Jack Keats Treasury
$29.99 Add to cartEzra Jack Keats is widely acknowledged as one of the first people to feature realistic, friendly, multi-ethnic urban settings in his picture books-forever changing the landscape of children’s literatu… [more below]
- Series: Ezra Jack Keats Treasury
- Author: Keats, Ezra Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 28 2002
- ISBN10: 0670035866
- Language: English
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Inner City Hoodlum
$8.99 Add to cartJohnny Washington, a black teenager in Los Angeles, knows the freight yard like the back of his hand. He and his pals, Josh and Buddy, hit them often, stealing for a fence. They have to. They’re the s… [more below]
- Author: Goines, Donald
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0870679996
- Language: English
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Who Was Duke Ellington?
$6.99 Add to cartHow did a working-class young man from Washington, DC, turn the music world on its head and become the “Master Of Jazz”? Find out in this addition to the Who HQ library!
A pivotal fixture of the Harle- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Payne, M. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 039953962X
- Language: English
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
$14.95 Add to cart‘The degradations, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe.’
Harriet Jacobs was born a slave in the American South and went on to write one of the most extraordin- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Jacobs, Harriet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0198709870
- Language: English
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Understanding Your Place in God’s Kingdom: Your Original Purpose for Existence
$21.99 Read moreThis book is about your original purpose for existence and the source of meaning behind your life. In these pages you will discover the Creator’s divine motivation, design, and mandate for His creatio
- Author: Munroe, Myles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: November 28 2011
- ISBN10: 0768440653
- Language: English
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How Many Stars in the Sky?
$9.99 Add to cartMama’s away one night, and her son can’t sleep. He tries to relax by counting stars, but the more of them he sees, the more determined he is to count every single one…
Then the boy finds that Daddy c
- Series: Reading Rainbow Books
- Author: Hort, Lenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 20 1997
- ISBN10: 068815218X
- Language: English
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Justice Makes a Difference: The Story of Miss Freedom Fighter, Esquire
$18.99 Read more“‘Words are powerful, ‘ Grandma told Justice. ‘They can be used in powerful ways to do good or to do harm. That’s why it’s important to always be careful with your words.'”
Justice has grown up w
- Author: Milton, Jacklyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0998555312
- Language: English
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The Everlasting Rose-The Belles Series, Book 2
$11.99 Read more“Staggering… A world that is breathtaking and crushing, beautiful and vile, and whimsical and terrifying. [Clayton] poignantly uses a harrowing, fantastical tale to illuminate the very real horrors … [more below]
- Series: Belles #2
- Author: Clayton, Dhonielle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1484743350
- Language: English
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Tryin’ to Sleep in the Bed You Made
$14.00 Add to cartBest friends face down a tragedy in this beloved novel from #1 Essence bestselling authors Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant, Tryin’ to Sleep in the Bed You Made.
Gayle Saunders and Patricia Reid were- Author: Deberry, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 125084665X
- Language: English
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A Black Women’s History of the United States
$29.95 Add to cartThe award-winning Revisioning American History series continues with this “groundbreaking new history of Black women in the United States” (Ibram X. Kendi)–the perfect companion to An Indigenous Peop… [more below]
- Series: ReVisioning American History #5
- Author: Berry, Daina Ramey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 0807033553
- Language: English
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Fights: One Boy’s Triumph Over Violence
$19.99 Read moreA New York Times Best Graphic Novel of 2020
Fights is the visce
YALSA 2021 Great Graphic Novels for Teens
2021 Cartoonists Prize for Print Comics
2021 Eisner Awards Best Publication for Teens Nominee- Author: Gill, Joel Christian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 21 2020
- ISBN10: 154930335X
- Language: English
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John Henry
$8.99 Read moreJulius Lester and Jerry Pinkney’s warm, humorous retelling of a popular African-American folk ballad.
When John Henry was born the birds, bears, rabbits, and even a unicorn came to see him. He grew so- Author: Lester, Julius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: December 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140566228
- Language: English
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Bronx Masquerade
$12.99 Add to cartThe beloved and award-winning novel now available in a new format with a great new cover
When Wesley Boone writes a poem for his high school English class, some of his classmates clamor to read their- Author: Grimes, Nikki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 08 2017
- ISBN10: 0425289761
- Language: English
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Alma W. Thomas: Everything Is Beautiful
$65.00 Add to cartA sweeping retrospective of Alma W. Thomas’s wide-reaching artistic practice that sheds new light on her singular search for beauty
Achieving fame in 1972 as the first Black woman to mount a solo sho- Author: Walz, Jonathan Frederick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0300258933
- Language: English
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Monumental: Oscar Dunn and His Radical Fight in Reconstruction Louisiana
$19.95 Add to cartMonumental tells, for the first time, the incredible story of Oscar James Dunn, a New Orleanian born into slavery who became America’s first Black lieutenant governor and acting governor. A champion o
- Author: Mitchell, Brian K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0917860837
- Language: English
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The Patchwork Path: A Quilt Map to Freedom
$7.99 Read moreThe images stitched into Hannah’s quilt lead to secret signposts on the Underground Railroad as she and her father take flight from slavery on a perilous path to freedom.
Now that Hannah’s papa has de- Author: Stroud, Bettye
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 28 2007
- ISBN10: 0763635197
- Language: English
